Taft registering – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Taft registering. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Taft registering
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This glass negative records former President William Howard Taft at a voter registration, a routine civic act that press photographers often staged for newspapers. The title comes from caption information the Bain News Service wrote on its negatives or cards, and the record does not confirm the date or location, so the exact occasion is uncertain. George Grantham Bain founded the New York agency in the early 1900s to supply pictures of public figures and events to newspapers, and its glass plates, like this one, capture the everyday mechanics of political life in that era. Taft, who served as president from 1909 to 1913 and later as Chief Justice of the United States, was a frequent subject of such images.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch three loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,804 × 4,229 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-11301 |
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